Page 1683 - Week 06 - Thursday, 13 August 1992
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MADAM SPEAKER: You moved them together by leave, Mr Westende, so I believe that they should be voted on together. You may move that they be considered separately, if you so choose.
Motion (by Mr Westende) agreed to:
That the question be divided.
Amendment to omit subclause (1) negatived.
Amendment to subclause (2) negatived.
Amendment (by Mr Stevenson), by leave, agreed to:
Page 10, subclause 18(1), line 6, omit the word "promote".
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (4.13): Madam Speaker, I move:
Page 10, paragraph (3)(a), line 12, insert "other than fish" after "animals".
This is the fish one. I think we have had the debate on it.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 19
MR WESTENDE (4.14): Clause 19 has to do with medical and surgical procedures. Once again our amendment is to the penalty. Once again there is such vagueness about the medical procedure that we feel that a fine of $5,000 or six months' gaol, or both, would be quite sufficient for a breach of this Act. We may have gone along with the other things if it had been more clearly defined; but once again we are exempting certain things such as farming and grazing activities, management of a zoo and the management of wildlife. There are many others that could be added to that which simply have not been thought of. Therefore, Madam Speaker, we move that these penalties be reduced to the ones that we recommend in our amendment. I move:
Page 10, subclause (1), line 21, omit "$10,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both", substitute "$5,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both".
MR MOORE (4.15): Madam Speaker, I rise to speak on this because, like Mr Westende, I have some concerns about the level of this penalty. I suppose my concerns arose from my own experience with a dog long since deceased that I owned for some time. Subclause 19(1) says:
A person ... shall not, without reasonable excuse, carry out a medical or surgical procedure on an animal.
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